Jack Smith

Biography

Jack Smith was an American filmmaker, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is generally acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art, and has been critically recognized as a master photographer, though his photographic works are rare and remain largely unknown.

Known For

The Andy Griffith Show

I Am Divine

Love Thing

Night of the Dark Full Moon

Andy Warhol Screen Tests

Diaries, Notes, and Sketches

Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory

Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis

All Movies (47)

• Escape From Rented Island: The Lost Paradise of Jack Smith2017 · as Himself (archive footage)
• I Am Divine2014 · as Self (archive)
• Love Thing2012
• Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory2008
• Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis2007 · as Self (archive footage)
• Two Wrenching Departures2006
• Star Spangled to Death2004 · as The Spirit Not of Life But of Living
• Birth of a Nation1997 · as Self
• Shadows in the City1991 · as Spirit of Death
• Home Movies 1971-811985
• The Queen of Sheba Meets the Atom Man1981
• The Trap Door1980 · as Dr. Shrinkelstein
• The Secret of Rented Island1978
• Night of the Dark Full Moon1972 · as Inmate
• The Stone Age1970
• Gerard Malanga's Film Notebooks1970 · as Self
• Filmmakers1969 · as Himself
• Song for Rent1969 · as Rose Courtyard
• Diaries, Notes, and Sketches1968 · as Self
• The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda1968
• Flaming Twenties1968
• The Illiac Passion1967 · as Orpheus
• Poem Posters1967 · as Self
• Joan of Arc1967 · as Self
• I Was a Male Yvonne De Carlo for the Lucky Landlord.....1967
• Satisfaction1966 · as God
• Hedy1966 · as soothsayer
• Andy Warhol Screen Tests1965 · as Self
• Camp1965
• Dirt1965
• Electrolux Lover1965
• Jeremelu1964
• The Devil is Dead1964
• Batman Dracula1964 · as Batman / Dracula
• Batman Dracula – “Batman on Beach with Nymph”1964 · as Batman
• Batman Dracula – “Jack Gerard Smoking”1964
• The Soap Opera1964
• Screen Test: Jack Smith1964 · as Himself
• Lovers of Eternity1964
• Chumlum1963
• Andy Warhol Films Jack Smith Filming "Normal Love"1963 · as Self
• Little Stabs at Happiness1963 · as Himself
• Blonde Cobra1963 · as Madame Nescience
• The Death of P'town1961 · as Fairy Vampire
• Saturday Afternoon Blood Sacrifice1956 · as Cult leader
• Little Cobra Dance1956
• The Bubble People—

All TV Shows (1)

• The Andy Griffith Show1960 · as Himself